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Looks like Oscar-gal Lupita Nyong'o might be added to the cast. Haven't seen 12 years yet but I do feel obliged to do it after liking McQueen's debut Shame with Fassbender.

Bergman & Trier are definitely among the best artistic-directors in Scandinavia

Except there's a difference between voice acting, stage acting and even film acting -- Perhaps I should have referred to it as "film acting". Different factors are put into play. In fact, most stage actors aren't very adapt in voice acting, and a lot of theater players aren't comfortable with TV or film acting -- Usually, because, with stage acting, you have to make everything bigger without looking as if you are over-exaggerating. One of the major problems that can occur for TV-actors, with no theater experience, is audibility. Because they are used to having microphones, they are not used to projecting their voices and can sometimes be too quiet for some of the audience to hear. I know this because I've performed cabaret myself, alongside acting in shortfilms. There's such a large difference like you wouldn't believe. Hamill's career as that sort of actor was fundamentally ruined with Star Wars. I wouldn't know if Hamill has done any theater work ever since, I haven't followed him in that department, but if we are talking about film it hasn't been going well. Hack as compared to what, George Lucas? A hack as compared to Irvin Kershner(Empire Strikes back -- May he R.I.P), or literally any other sci-fi director I could list. Abrams feels like a 'safe choice' and I find most of his film to be unremarkable in terms how they are shot, edited, but visually they are pretty but the they sure to draw too much attention -- Hence why he has received notoriety for the insistence emphasis placed on lighting "lens flares". -- I believe Star Wars would benefit from compromising by leaving the reigns to people like Duncan Jones (if he wasn't busy with Warcraft), Matthew Vaughn, Alfonso Cuaron, Edgar Wright or Jaco Van Dormael (the cinematography in Mr Nobody is nothing short of extraordinary, so having him and the his subsequent camera man Christophe Beaucarne would have been fascinating to say the least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOCZFChafOQ

Mark Hamill hasn't done any proper acting in years, and it's been a while since Lawrence Kasdan has written a good script. Taking that into considertaion it can still easily flop especially with that hack J.J as director. I do, however, approve of Max von Sydow & Oscar Isaac and would have liked to see Ryan Gosling or Billy Dee returning, hmm.

Finished The Witcher - After 2 boring-me-to-tears chapters of droll fetch quests, spending most of the time running around from point A to B, it finally started getting good and ended up with a pretty satisfying. The combat still sucked a rusty fire hydrant, and I hate the inventory system amongst many other things, but ended up liking it well enough overall...

Lol, I remember when I heard about that option in ME2. So INOVATIVE and HEAVY CUSTOMIZABLE!

To me, he looks like Inigo Montoya out of The Princess Bride, a bonifide Swashbuckler, which is a look I'd see better suited for a rogue. I've always picture the rogue as a smarmy non-authority character with a cunning wit, who makes his own rules and uses elaborate tricks during combat as well as speed to win. Like some people mentioned earlier -- BioWare's idea of a rogue doesn't sit right with me at all. Mostly due to how the armor looks like something out of DA2, which was just terrible in general.

They need also be congratulated for coming up with all sorts of contrived reasons as to why Anders did not end up being as blue as Elvis -- after having his day thoroughly ruined, and incidentally his life, by a colossal boulder, which not even the smarmiest of his arsenal of tomfoolery wise cracks could possibly bounce off.

I want that outfit for a rogue, so I can roleplay as a Swashbuckler Errol Flynn-type, instead of that atrocious-tacky-cartoonish-looking one that looks like it was ported over from DA2's silly armor design department, currently showcased on their site.

Disney has committed the crime of making crappy sequels to their Golden-Age classics, and they even bothered dishing out sequels to a not-so-fantastic film, Pirates of the Carribean. I'd call Toy Story 3 to be the exception to the rule which is warranted for all that development it received. They also made a bad spin-off based on an otherwise okay film, mostly held up by Olivia Wilde & Jeff Bridges plus the amazing soundtrack of Daft Punk. Outside of Pixar animated film, I'd say their live-aciton-line-up is mostly ****e.

I don't know. Entropy in the first game had the ability to summon zombies, and it certaintly wasn't part of the blood magic. But who knows. Forgot about that. But weren't the blood mages in DA2 summing undead on mass? Also this is mage gear in DA:I? I personally think it looks badass but then again I am a sucker for wide proportioned collars -- Although I would say it fits a Rogue more than a Mage but it's a step up from your average ballerina skirts of Dragon Age Origins.

Now that's disappointing. I'd actually would have loved for some internal moral struggles, in relation to blood magic, to happen in the game. Origins had something like that going but it was ultimately cut, bah.

Gonna have to say this though, just to avoid having the thread be entirely dedicated to taking jabs at BioWare's flaws -- it is nice that they actually decided to incorporate racial choice, thus delaying the game a year to pave way for improvement and polishing. The gameplay actually looks promising if it can at least be on par with something like Dark Souls or Dragon's Dogma. My dream is seeing a BioWare game with Dragon's Dogma gameplay -- mounting dragons as your stamina depletes while hanging on to dear life as they leap of into the air was always intense. Dogma knows its boss fights. Pure unadulterated fun. Taking inspiration from other titles, like Skyrim, doesn't sound too bad either as long as it isn't shameless copy-pasting, like the ridiculous implementation of Batman's Detective Vision in every stealth game as of late. More sprawly levels would be preferable as opposed to pure sandbox otherwise I feel the game will lose its sense of flow, and ultimate the story tends to suffer for it in my experience. There's promise in Inquisition for certain. It can probably keep my attention sharp until Persona 5 releases along with some other titles from older generations I still need to play.

Tarkovsky is my favorite director, anything by him is good and his best work can only be described as transcendent. That said, he's hardly underrated or lesser known.. For a less known director I recommend the spaniard Alexis De La Iglesia. His black comedies, "La Comunidad", "El Crimen Ferpecto" and "El Dia de la Bestia" are ingenious. Thanks, I'm open minded to Black comedies. Got a list of films to watch now, and currently searching for anything before the 80's alongside some other gems.

I enjoyed it during Belgrade FEST (movie festival). I like the leading actor as well, particularly in the movie Adam's Apples. He's somewhat of a rising star now. Adam's Apples is tres bien as black comedies goes -- I enjoy black comedy when it's best, like Lebowski, Fargo, Burn After Reading, Snatch, The Royal Tenenbaums etc. Adam's Apples though is also a film that will potentially alienate non-Danes, given some of its humor would only make most sense to Danes. I'm surprised you enjoyed it though. Good thing too. I'd recommend Flickering Lights, After the Wedding or Prague, as other interesting films with Mads Mikkelsen. Also if you liked The Hunt then I'd recommend The Celebration, directed by Vinterberg as well. It adheres to the Dogme 95 movement, which is an avan-garde film-style that incorporates simple production values and naturalistic performances. It falls back on the traditional values of story, acting, theme without the use of special-effects or technology -- Originally started up by Lars Von Trier, Vinterberg and other influential Danish film-makers. If you're a real film-nerd then you should probably watch Trier's movies too. And for elite film-nerds I'd say it's imperative to watch The Five Obstructions for anybody who has remote interest in film-making or the art within the medium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSdu9Zw6R54

It's quite likely it was a typo -- Rain or shine, the word of god won't magically change stuff in the game itself, so ultimately. Doesn't really matter but it's still jarring nonetheless.

No, I think you interpreted my comment a bit too drastic. I didn't particular notice any hints towards anything but bitter indifference in my comment -- I generally don't care much about what happens after the movies, except for a few characters whom I found interesting. Morriban was simply a point of reference to a supposed birth place of the Sith, which Yoda would visit in that silly CGI tv-series. I just found the idea of that name to be rather jarring, especially like you mentioned -- the main difference being one letter, so why even change it in the first place beyond the need of waving your willie around to affirm your status as 'the big man' who decides what goes. But it's their universe I suppose and they can do whatever.. Not even sure if they went ahead with the idea, but supposedly there would be no Valley of the Dark Lords and all that other interesting stuff established with the KOTOR games. That's all.

Should write my own thoughts of Vinterberg's The Hunt as well soon. Among the best thing to come out of Danish cinema for a while. Definitely on par with his previous masterpiece The Celebration.

Well as long as they don't remove anything before the atrocity that is the Prequel films, like renaming Korriban to something retarded like Morriban -- The KOTOR-stuff is pretty much the only Star Wars lore I care about, specifically the stuff in Sith Lords -- Although it would be a shame for them to remove General Thrawn & Kyle Katarn, with anything Lucas might have had in mind. Because what George Lucas creates isn't as much writing as it is vomiting through a pen.

Romance was a major factor in Final Fantasy X. While Tidus had horrid voice acting and the story could be really corny at times it was actually about romance. You didn't have choice in the matter but the two leads had a genuine romantic interaction leading to a bittersweet conclusion. Bioware's "romances" aren't about romance, because the dating sim mechanics they implement are the same type you'd find in a hentai game. Its a game mechanic leading to a reward and the reward you're led to expect is sex. I don't have a problem with sex in games. Some of the events leading up to Witcher's sexy cards were hilarious. The cards themselves were a nerd bait and a joke at the same time. But they didn't pretend to be anything else. Geralt = James Bond in that universe and he gets the babes. Its part of the deal, like with Final Fantasy X - take it or leave it. But even the implicit hypocrisy of Bioware fans clamoring for their "romances" is fine. The problem lies in the fact that Bioware romances are as a rule ****. They don't know how to write a good love story. They never have. The only romance they ever wrote that was tolerable was Jaheira and that was mostly because the character grew on you and developed over the span of two games.. The others are corny choose the right answer affairs with traumatized women, ice queens, blue space lesbians, practically every idiotic trope you could think of except a relationship between two normal human individuals. That about sums up my earlier comment -- I do, however, believe it's something worthy to strive for in games but either it needs to serve the game from a story-aspect or need not be there at all I' say. The sex cards were dumb, and all the women had large enough bossoms you could lose your dog in and would jump on you at the slightest provocation for a quick nobbin'. But that's that.

Yeah, I'm not sure why this is seen as a step forward other than making the game arbitrarily more "hardcore." Wasn't it Avellone or Sawyer who pointed out that drinking a health potion when your health is low is neither difficult nor tactically interesting? To me, this should go into the dustbin of RPG features, along with "pre-buffing." I'd argue that hiding behind a chest-high-wall, sniffing up gravel, to get your health back up is just pants-on-head-retarded though. Any concept of challenge was removed amongst other things when they started to introduce that feature to Hitman or Splinter Cell. Regenerative Health is just dumb in my opinion.

You get a like just for that Fargo gif alone.

Now that's what I call Glorious. Loghain: Your fascination with GLORY and legend will be your undoing Cailan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP8EvJ_4hy8